Big Joe Turner - Honey Hush

First performance: 20/01/1988


Coverinfo

Bruce performed the song only once:
 
 
1988-01-20 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, NY
 
Springsteen attends the third Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame ceremonies with Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Beach Boys the evening's key Hall Of Fame inductees. This 1988 event is considered to be the most memorable to date due to the number of major stars that turned up. Bruce gives the induction speech for Dylan. Springsteen performed in varying musician/vocalist support roles on all of the listed tracks. Bruce attended the event with then-wife Julianne Phillips - it was the last time they were seen in public together. The group singing backup on most of the songs, credited on the officially-released compilation albums as The Rock Hall Jam Band, includes, among others, Ben E. King, Johnny Moore, Joe Blunt, Clyde Brown, Jeff Beck, George Harrison, Mick Jagger, John and Tom Fogerty, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Les Paul, Mary Wilson, Elton John, Arlo Guthrie, Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr, The Beach Boys, Little Richard, Peter Wolf, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Dave Edmunds, Jeff Lynne, Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon, and The World's Most Dangerous Band. Also on stage are various E-Streeters, including Max Weinberg, Little Steven, Clarence Clemons, and Patti Scialfa. Joel sings lead on "I Saw Her Standing There". Fogerty sings lead on "Born On The Bayou". Jagger sings lead on "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", calling Bruce over to share the microphone. Dylan sings lead on "Like A Rolling Stone", and Harrison and Dylan share vocals on "All Along The Watchtower". 
 
  

Songinfo

"Honey Hush", is a blues song, written by Big Joe Turner (although he assigned the copyright to his wife, Lou Willie Turner), recorded in May 1953 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and released that August by Atlantic Records. 
 
 
  

Bruce on the artist

Lyrics

Let 'em roll like a big wheel
In a Georgia cotton field, honey hush

Come in this house, stop all that yackety yack
I said come in this house, stop all that yackety yack
Yeah you fix my supper, don't want no talkin' back

Well, you keep a-jabberin', you talk about this and that
You keep a-jabberin', you talk about this and that
I got news for you, baby, you ain't nothin' but an alley cat

Turn off the waterworks, baby, that don't move me no more
Turn off the waterworks, baby, that don't move me no more
When I leave this time, I ain't comin' back no more, honey hush


I said come in this house, stop all that yackety yack
Come in here woman, stop all that yackety yack
Don't make me nervous 'cause I'm holdin' a baseball bat, honey hush

Turn off the waterworks, baby, that don't move me no more
Turn off the waterworks, baby, that don't move me no more
When I leave this time, I ain't comin' back no more, honey hush

Singin' hi-yo, hi-yo Silver (Hi-yo, hi-yo Silver)
Yeah hi-yo, hi-yo Silver (Hi-yo, hi-yo Silver)
Yeah hi-yo, hi-yo Silver (Hi-yo, hi-yo Silver)

Yeah hi-yo, hi-yo Silver (Hi-yo, hi-yo Silver)
Yeah hi-yo, hi-yo Silver (Hi-yo, hi-yo Silver)
Yeah hi-yo, hi-yo Silver away